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Ajiwe Police Station

07.01.2023 Featured REPORTER’S DIARY: What Ajiwe Police Station Looks Like After Bolanle Raheem’s Murder

Published 7th Jan, 2023

By Segun Ige

At 11 am on Tuesday, I went to the Iyana Oworo area of Bariga to board a car heading to Ajah, from where an extra transportation would get me to the Ajiwe Police Station.

Not until 12:06 pm did an Ajah Toyota Sienna show up. Normally, it would take roughly 30 minutes for a Lekki/Ajah car to convey the ever-awaiting commuters.

Clearly, this particularly unusual delay of Lekki/Ajah transporters pointed to one thing: there was still tension in the area as a result of Lawyer Bolanle Raheem’s death on December 25, 2022.

Quite predictably, when I finally got to Ajiwe Police Station at 1:04 pm, there was fear in the air. Police vehicles were strategically positioned at the front gate, with comparatively few mind-your-business residents looking and walking rather suspiciously away.

Then I entered into what seemed like a rat-hole decrepit reception jam-packed with gossiping and giggling policemen, and then into the grave-like station’s premises. I sat two metres away from a red-embroidered ankara and black trousers, a thirty-something-year-old man, who obviously had a crime case to settle. He looked somber.

I asked him, “What are you doing here?”

He answered me voluntarily, pointing to the crime department of the station.

“Why did you ask?”

“I saw that you looked worried. I hope it’s not something serious,” I responded.

“No,” he said, shaking his head, though still wearing his worried looks.

I observed another person, this time a woman, dressed in a black body-fitting apparel.

She was speaking in the Igbo Language with a man on the phone about a December 31, 2022 motor car accident, requesting the man to tell her where the victim was hospitalised.

She also stated in the conversation that there was a gunshot around the hospital and, ultimately, the committer of those heinous acts, who obviously was her relative, was already in the Ajiwe police custody.

At about 1:46 pm, the former Divisional Police Officer of Ijeshatedo in the Surulere area of Lagos, who is now the new DPO of the Ajiwe Police Division, CSP Adolf Ugwu, appeared.

“What are you doing there?” DPO Ugwu stormed at me and the man whose relative was having a crime case. “If you have any issues, go to the departments or sections.”

Then the DPO addressed his men, “I told you that anyone coming in should drop their phones at the reception.”

A woman with a baby strapped to her back had her pink bag thoroughly searched out. She did seem to be confounded, though not protesting, about the new development of the Ajiwe Police Station.

At this point, I headed to the crime section of the station, pretending to have a money case against my sibling. It was a three-woman crime section, where complainants were mostly on their own.

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Published 7th Jan, 2023

By Segun Ige

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